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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
This raises the most annoying practice of all at weddings: The bride or groom's parent telling the room how much he/she'd like grandchildren. Tasteless. Why no just say "Hey, everybody, close your eye and think about the couple fucking."
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While I agree I don't want to hear the bride's father publicly urge the groom to mount her and lay his seed upon her fertile crescent with great dispatch, I disagree about the sexual imagery of the couple. A well-designed wedding is so loaded with subtle sexual innuendo that it's the ceremony, not the reception, that primes the pump for hookups among the single guests.
The best weddings I've attended have been the ones before which neither the bride nor the groom has ever seen fit to discuss their sex lives with me, and I can maintain the distant illusion that they're about to experience the mysteries of love for the first time. Granted, the odds are about 800:1 against this ever being true, but the symbolism of the wedding ceremony is magnified when the bride and groom
didn't arrive at the chapel in the same car after rolling out of bed together.
One friend of mine was so old-fashioned and scrupulous that I put the odds at about 2:1 that he hadn't ever banged his bride-to-be before the wedding night. I seriously doubt he was a virgin, but he put his now-wife on such a recockulous pedestal that he probably didn't want to soil the experience of marital bliss by dabbling in it too early. I may just ask him when he and I are both 80.
